How much does it cost to cook Olivier in America
'08.11.2018'
Source: Zen.Yandex
I confess that I regularly prepare salad "Olivier" for the holidays - as they say, we pay tribute to traditions and remember home meals in the parents' house, the blogger writes Zen.Yandex. Therefore, today I decided to make it again and at the same time calculate how much it would cost from American products.
For Olivier prescription, we need:
- 4 potatoes
- 2 carrots
- 500 g doctoral sausage
- 5 eggs
- 4 pickles
- canned green peas
- 250 g mayonnaise
- and some green onions
As with making a “fur coat,” most products are readily available in almost any supermarket. By tradition, we will take everything from the German ALDI chain - there are some of the lowest prices and very decent quality.
- potatoes - $ 2.49 for 10 pounds of Russet potatoes
- carrots - $ 1.09 for 2 pounds
- eggs - $ 0.69 for a dozen large eggs
- onions - $ 1.99 for 3 pounds of yellow onions (was cheaper, by the way)
- mayonnaise - $ 1.89 for a can of Burmans mayonnaise (30 fl.oz. or 887 ml)
- green onions - $ 0.69 per bunch
- green peas - $ 0.49 for a 15-ounce barge (425 grams)
There are pickles in the USA - they are called pickles
However, they are absolutely not the same as ours, but some sweetish in taste. However, we still found in the sale of cucumbers that perfectly meet our standards! These are the so-called Kosher Dills, Kosher Dills from Vlasik, which can be found at any Walmart.
By the way, the Polish immigrant Frank Vlasik created the Vlasik company at the beginning of the last century. At first he was engaged in the production and sale of cheese, but then decided to try making Polish pickles with garlic and dill. During the Second World War, when there were few fresh cucumbers, Frank decided to preserve cucumbers in glass jars. It was a hit! And he is still with them.
Vlasik Pickles (Kosher with Dill) - $ 13.99 for a 46-oz can.
But with the doctor sausage there is a real problem!
What is sold in ordinary supermarkets and is called "Bologna" looks like a livery to a wolf to our sausage - very distant. But we found a way out! These are Hofmann's "German Brand" sausages, which are great in themselves and are great as a substitute for Doctor's sausage. By the way, Hofmann is a company from Syracuse, New York, where we spent the first year of our life in the USA. It was founded, as you know, by an immigrant from Germany, Frank Hofmann in 1861.
Sausages Hofmann “German brand” $ 5.49 for 14-unz packaging.
So, let's estimate the cost of the ingredients, taking into account the volume of products required for making Olivier:
- 4 potatoes - $ 0.33
- 2 carrots - $ 0.30
- 500 g Hofmann sausages - $ 6.91
- 5 eggs - $ 0.29
- 4 pickles - $ 2.14
- canned green peas - $ 0,49 (almost the entire can was gone)
- 250 Mr. Mayonnaise- $ 0.61
- and some green onions - $ 0.17
Total $ 11.24 or 738 rublesif Google isn't lying with the course. Taking into account the cleaning of products, waste and boiling, the output turned out to be a basin of 2 kg 385 grams. Thus, I got 1 kg of "Olivier" or as they call "Russian salad" for 309 rubles or 100 grams for 30.9 rubles.
By the way, the Americans really liked it! Mathematics, check my calculations.
